Dear Maintainer,

I noticed this error message after upgrading to bookworm a while
ago. It doesn't have to have any ill-effect.  The full message
from boot.log.1 is:

Begin: Running /scripts/local-bottom ... /scripts/local-bottom/mdadm: 2: /scripts/local-bottom/mdadm: rm: not found
done.

and the file in question appears to be installed by mdadm to
/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-bottom/mdadm:

#!/bin/sh
rm -f /run/count.mdadm.initrd
exit 0

On my system /bin/sh is symlinked to /bin/dash so dash
cannot find the `rm` command.  /bin is symblinked to usr/bin/
which has the `rm` binary.

This appears to be a regression of #875918 that was fixed in 4.1-9
while I am running 4.2-5.


/Allan
--- /etc/default/mdadm
AUTOCHECK=true
AUTOSCAN=true
START_DAEMON=true
DAEMON_OPTIONS="--syslog"
VERBOSE=false

--- /proc/partitions:
major minor  #blocks  name

 259        0 3907018584 nvme0n1
 259        1     524288 nvme0n1p1
 259        2 3906493255 nvme0n1p2

--- LVM physical volumes:
LVM does not seem to be used.
--- mount output
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=32780212k,nr_inodes=8195053,mode=755,inode64)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=6562796k,mode=755,inode64)
/dev/nvme0n1p2 on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,inode64)
tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k,inode64)
cgroup2 on /sys/fs/cgroup type cgroup2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nsdelegate,memory_recursiveprot)
pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
efivarfs on /sys/firmware/efi/efivars type efivarfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
bpf on /sys/fs/bpf type bpf (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=700)
systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=29,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=15153)
hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime,pagesize=2M)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tracefs on /sys/kernel/tracing type tracefs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
configfs on /sys/kernel/config type configfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
ramfs on /run/credentials/systemd-sysusers.service type ramfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=700)
ramfs on /run/credentials/systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service type ramfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=700)
/dev/nvme0n1p1 on /boot/efi type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0077,dmask=0077,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro)
ramfs on /run/credentials/systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service type ramfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=700)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
ramfs on /run/credentials/systemd-sysctl.service type ramfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=700)
tmpfs on /run/user/1000 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=6562792k,nr_inodes=1640698,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=100,inode64)
pawan:/var/lib/media on /home/allan/media type fuse.sshfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100)
tracefs on /sys/kernel/debug/tracing type tracefs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)

--- initrd.img-6.1.0-25-amd64:

gzip: /boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-25-amd64: not in gzip format
cpio: premature end of archive

--- initrd's /conf/conf.d/md:
no conf/md file.

--- /proc/modules:
dm_mod 184320 0 - Live 0xffffffffc0b8f000
raid10 65536 0 - Live 0xffffffffc08a2000
raid456 180224 0 - Live 0xffffffffc09d6000
async_raid6_recov 24576 1 raid456, Live 0xffffffffc083b000
async_memcpy 20480 2 raid456,async_raid6_recov, Live 0xffffffffc07de000
async_pq 20480 2 raid456,async_raid6_recov, Live 0xffffffffc07d8000
async_xor 20480 3 raid456,async_raid6_recov,async_pq, Live 0xffffffffc0783000
async_tx 20480 5 raid456,async_raid6_recov,async_memcpy,async_pq,async_xor, Live 0xffffffffc077d000
raid6_pq 122880 3 raid456,async_raid6_recov,async_pq, Live 0xffffffffc09b7000
libcrc32c 16384 1 raid456, Live 0xffffffffc0736000
raid1 53248 0 - Live 0xffffffffc0728000
raid0 24576 0 - Live 0xffffffffc064f000
multipath 20480 0 - Live 0xffffffffc0643000
linear 20480 0 - Live 0xffffffffc05ec000
md_mod 192512 6 raid10,raid456,raid1,raid0,multipath,linear, Live 0xffffffffc0987000

--- volume detail:
/dev/sda is not recognised by mdadm.
/dev/sdb is not recognised by mdadm.
/dev/sdc is not recognised by mdadm.
/dev/sdd is not recognised by mdadm.

--- /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-25-amd64 root=UUID=4281ffd0-af9c-41f6-8354-7a8387da04c9 ro nosplash quiet transparent_hugepage=madvise

--- grub2:
	linux	/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-25-amd64 root=UUID=4281ffd0-af9c-41f6-8354-7a8387da04c9 ro  nosplash quiet transparent_hugepage=madvise
		linux	/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-25-amd64 root=UUID=4281ffd0-af9c-41f6-8354-7a8387da04c9 ro  nosplash quiet transparent_hugepage=madvise
		linux	/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-25-amd64 root=UUID=4281ffd0-af9c-41f6-8354-7a8387da04c9 ro single

--- udev:
ii  udev           252.30-1~deb12u2 amd64        /dev/ and hotplug management daemon
9d7dfcdc58fa54941f8d28f6094a7a5b  /lib/udev/rules.d/01-md-raid-creating.rules
d767cffc82663d79b515f66ee8557fb4  /lib/udev/rules.d/63-md-raid-arrays.rules
b733421b507e8c6c87963f4bfb572ca5  /lib/udev/rules.d/64-md-raid-assembly.rules
ba1d376ca9b7364576f950d06ba18207  /lib/udev/rules.d/69-md-clustered-confirm-device.rules
66395d55d648c302185206ca05df2691  /lib/udev/rules.d/99-systemd.rules

--- /dev:
/dev/disk/by-diskseq:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Aug 31 23:36 1 -> ../../nvme0n1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 Aug 31 23:36 14 -> ../../sdb
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 Aug 31 23:36 15 -> ../../sdd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 Aug 31 23:36 16 -> ../../sda
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 Aug 31 23:36 17 -> ../../sdc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Aug 31 23:36 2 -> ../../loop0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Aug 31 23:36 3 -> ../../loop1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Aug 31 23:36 4 -> ../../loop2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Aug 31 23:36 5 -> ../../loop3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Aug 31 23:36 6 -> ../../loop4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Aug 31 23:36 7 -> ../../loop5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Aug 31 23:36 8 -> ../../loop6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Aug 31 23:36 9 -> ../../loop7

/dev/disk/by-id:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Aug 31 23:36 nvme-Samsung_SSD_990_PRO_4TB_S7KGNJ0WB00003T -> ../../nvme0n1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Aug 31 23:36 nvme-Samsung_SSD_990_PRO_4TB_S7KGNJ0WB00003T-part1 -> ../../nvme0n1p1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Aug 31 23:36 nvme-Samsung_SSD_990_PRO_4TB_S7KGNJ0WB00003T-part2 -> ../../nvme0n1p2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Aug 31 23:36 nvme-Samsung_SSD_990_PRO_4TB_S7KGNJ0WB00003T_1 -> ../../nvme0n1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Aug 31 23:36 nvme-Samsung_SSD_990_PRO_4TB_S7KGNJ0WB00003T_1-part1 -> ../../nvme0n1p1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Aug 31 23:36 nvme-Samsung_SSD_990_PRO_4TB_S7KGNJ0WB00003T_1-part2 -> ../../nvme0n1p2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Aug 31 23:36 nvme-eui.0025384b3140f952 -> ../../nvme0n1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Aug 31 23:36 nvme-eui.0025384b3140f952-part1 -> ../../nvme0n1p1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Aug 31 23:36 nvme-eui.0025384b3140f952-part2 -> ../../nvme0n1p2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 Aug 31 23:36 usb-Kingston_Multi-Reader_-0_08738183000239-0:0 -> ../../sda
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 Aug 31 23:36 usb-Kingston_Multi-Reader_-1_08738183000239-0:1 -> ../../sdd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 Aug 31 23:36 usb-Kingston_Multi-Reader_-2_08738183000239-0:2 -> ../../sdb
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 Aug 31 23:36 usb-Kingston_Multi-Reader_-3_08738183000239-0:3 -> ../../sdc

/dev/disk/by-partlabel:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Aug 31 23:36 primary -> ../../nvme0n1p1

/dev/disk/by-partuuid:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Aug 31 23:36 5eeed95e-8889-495f-8ac7-ea837b40de34 -> ../../nvme0n1p1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Aug 31 23:36 8e6bfec7-f95b-4cdc-bbad-7b602afcaf47 -> ../../nvme0n1p2

/dev/disk/by-path:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 Aug 31 23:36 pci-0000:00:14.0-usb-0:2.1:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 -> ../../sda
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 Aug 31 23:36 pci-0000:00:14.0-usb-0:2.1:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:1 -> ../../sdd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 Aug 31 23:36 pci-0000:00:14.0-usb-0:2.1:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:2 -> ../../sdb
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 Aug 31 23:36 pci-0000:00:14.0-usb-0:2.1:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:3 -> ../../sdc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Aug 31 23:36 pci-0000:3e:00.0-nvme-1 -> ../../nvme0n1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Aug 31 23:36 pci-0000:3e:00.0-nvme-1-part1 -> ../../nvme0n1p1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Aug 31 23:36 pci-0000:3e:00.0-nvme-1-part2 -> ../../nvme0n1p2

/dev/disk/by-uuid:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Aug 31 23:36 4281ffd0-af9c-41f6-8354-7a8387da04c9 -> ../../nvme0n1p2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Aug 31 23:36 F39E-26F8 -> ../../nvme0n1p1

Auto-generated on Tue, 24 Sep 2024 03:42:05 -0400 by mdadm bugscript

Control: severity -1 normal
Control: found -1 mdadm/4.4-5

This reproduces on fresh installs of trixie, the log message there
reads:

/scripts/local-bottom/mdadm: 2: /scripts/local-bottom/mdadm: rm: not found

It appears nothing ensures (/usr)/bin/rm is actually copied into the
initramfs.

Could this please be fixed in time for the release?

Thanks,
Chris

* Chris Hofstaedtler [Tue Feb 25, 2025 at 11:43:11PM +0100]:

This is still present in mdadm v4.4-11, any chance to see this fixed
for trixie?

regards
-mika-

[Resending to 1082657@bugs.debian.org instead of -quiet to ensure it
reaches the package maintainer :)]

* Chris Hofstaedtler [Tue Feb 25, 2025 at 11:43:11PM +0100]:

This is still present in mdadm v4.4-11, any chance to see this fixed
for trixie?

regards
-mika-

indeed, I haven't seen it :(

I'll have a look at it on Monday after the holidays and aim for an
unblock :)

Regards,
Daniel

Hi,

hmm.. I had a look at this several times, however, I coudn't find out
why 'rm' isn't working at that stage/place in initramfs, where it
clearly works before or afterwards for other packages.

I'll give it another go tomorrow.

Regards,
Daniel

I just had another look at this bug. It happens only on machines
which do not have "busybox" installed.

IIRC initramfs-tools can use various tools either from busybox or
from coreutils and klibc-utils. I *guess* if busybox is installed,
busybox and all links to it get installed unconditionally. This does
not happen if busybox is not installed.

Probably the easy way out is to unconditionally have the mdadm hook
script install /bin/rm into the initramfs.

Chris

[..]

Daniel, did you find some time for this?


Thanks,
Chris

* Chris Hofstaedtler [Sat Sep 06, 2025 at 05:51:58PM +0200]:

Friendly maintainer ping

regards
-mika-

hi,

* Michael Prokop [Mon Oct 06, 2025 at 11:58:17AM +0200]:

Ping? :)

regards
-mika-

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
mdadm, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1082657@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> (supplier of updated mdadm package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)
Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2026 19:29:50 +0200
Source: mdadm
Architecture: source
Version: 4.6-3
Distribution: sid
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>
Changed-By: Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>
Closes: 1082657
Changes:
 mdadm (4.6-3) sid; urgency=medium
 .
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   * Including rm from coreutils explicitly for systems without busybox
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